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Posted on August 3, 2018 at 9:16 am
I’m thrilled to announce that I am joining Rogerebert.com as its first female Assistant Editor, and will be contributing reviews regularly to its newly gender-balanced roster of critics. I am deeply grateful to Editor in Chief Chaz Ebert and to Matt Zoller Seitz, Brian Tellerico, Matt Fagerholm, and Nick Allen for giving me this opportunity. …
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Posted on August 2, 2018 at 5:50 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for some action |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril and mayhem, reference to sad death of a parent, brief wartime battle scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 3, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
November 5, 2018 |
You can’t become a child again. But you can reconnect to the child who still lives within you, and when you do, it means even more because you know how precious it is. That is not just the theme of “Christopher Robin.” It is the experience of watching it. Enchanting production design from Jennifer Williams …
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Posted on August 2, 2018 at 5:39 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
References to fertility, pregnancy, sex, and "cures" for homosexuality |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Reference to a brutal murder, tense family situations, sad offscreen death |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 3, 2018 |
All parents at some point look at children and think, “Who is this and how did they get to be part of my family?” Children think that from time to time about their parents, too, especially when they get to their teens. “Far from the Tree,” based on the award-winning book by Andrew Solomon, is …
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Posted on August 2, 2018 at 5:29 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and explicit sexual situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Off-screen self-mutilation and attempted suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 3, 2018 |
“Pray the gay away.” That is the idea behind “gay conversion” facilities, now thankfully outlawed in fourteen states as contrary to both science and human dignity. But “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” based on the novel by Emily M. Danforth, is set in 1993. It might as well have been 1793 for the Puritanical attitude …
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Posted on August 2, 2018 at 8:00 am
“Far from the Tree” is a new documentary based on the award-winning book by Andrew Solomon that explores the challenges families families face when they have children who in one way or another seem to be especially different and hard to understand. The movie uses Solomon’s own story as a gay man whose parents struggled …
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